Chamnan said the number of overseas visitors has started to slow and that the recovery has been uneven, explaining that 34% of business owners in the tourism industry have seen rising revenue while 34% were seeing revenues declining.
He called on the next government to support small and medium-sized enterprises, and both foreign and domestic tourism.
Pakakrong Theparak, a lecturer at the Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, said confidence had dropped among operators of tourism businesses during the second quarter, but was expected to rebound in the third quarter.
She said the Thai tourism industry had recovered to about 60% of its pre-pandemic level.
Srivijaya forecast that the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand this year would be 29.35 million, slightly below the target of 30 million, due to slowing economies in Europe and North America as well as a…
